"Onomatopoeia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... especially out of place in an epitaph, which should avoid studied effects and meretricious devices. But writers in the early stages of a literature and common people of all periods find a pleasure in them. Alliteration, onomatopoeia, the pun, and the play on words are to be found in all the early Latin poets, and they are especially frequent with literary men like Plautus and Terence, Pacuvius and Accius, who wrote for the stage, and therefore for the ...
— The Common People of Ancient Rome - Studies of Roman Life and Literature • Frank Frost Abbott |
